ICONIC Oct 2013 | Page 39

GoneScience I originally started out in music playing lead guitar in a hardcore punk band called Deep 13. After band members went their seperate ways, I decided to work on music alone, in my home studio. I really had always had a passion for great music of ANY genre. Hip Hop appealed to me because of the beautiful usage of wordplay with language. I had always excelled in my English classes and began writing hip hop around 2001. About a year later I started my first group, Magnetik, members including: myself, Assassin and Vanish. We later went on to drop a five song self titled EP before the group broke up later the next year. I dropped my first solo EP in 2004 titled “WeakDays” which was the first project I did that I was really happy with. Up until 2012 I also did all of my own production. In 2008, I was involved in some legal problems, and as a result became incarcerated for 3 years. While incarcerated I spent alot of time reflecting on my mistakes and reading the Bible daily. My first of now 3 girls was born while I was incarcerated. So, for the first time in my life, I knew I had to change or I was headed for destruction. I then started writing lyrics with a much more positive message than I had ever previously written. Telling the truth about the negative impact the mainstream media had on society became a priority. In 2012, I began working with DJ Catastrophy out of Colorado, in which he did all of the production and gave me more time to perfect my writing significantly. We decided to title our collaboration as Gon- eCatastrophik, or “GCTK”. New Years Eve at exactly midnight Jan 1st, 2013, we dropped our first full length project titled GoneCatastrophik. I am currently working on the next GoneCatastrophik project as well as a solo project which will be entirely Christian Hip Hop. Thats just where my writing has taken me as an ???????????????????????????9????????)????????????????????????????????????????1??????)M????((??((